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References on Computer Models of Complex Systems


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Books on Computer Modelling


Author Title Publisher Year Description
Albin, Peter S. (ed. Duncan K. Foley)  Barriers and Bounds to Rationality: Essays on economic complexity and dynamics in interactive systems  Princeton  1998  Review by Roger A. McCain (JASSS 2.3, 1999). 
Axelrod, Robert  The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-based models of competition and collaboration  Princeton  1997  Review by Ken Binmore (JASSS 1.1, 1998). 
Bedau, Mark A. and Humphreys, Paul (eds)  Emergence  MIT  2008  A collection of papers on emergence, mostly from the 1990s, by a wide range of notable authors. Review by Flaminio Squazzoni (JASSS 11.4, 2008) 
Billari, Francesco G., Fent, Thomas, Prskawetz, Alexia and Scheffran, Jurgen (eds)  Agent-Based Computational Modelling: Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences  Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg  2006  Review by Petra Ahrweiler (JASSS 10.2, 2007) 
Buchanan, Mark  The Social Atom: Why the rich get richer, cheaters get caught, and your neighbor usually looks like you  Bloomsbury  2007  Review by David Hales (JASSS 11.3, 2008). 
Calvin, William H. and Bickerton, Derek  Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain  MIT  2001   
Casti, John L  Would-be Worlds: How simulation is changing the frontiers of science  Wiley  1997  Review by Robert Anderson (JASSS 4.1, 2001). 
Cilliers, Paul  Complexity and Postmodernism  Routledge  1998  Review by David Byrne (JASSS 2.2, 1999). 
Conte, Rosaria, Hegselmann, Rainer and Terna, Pietro (eds)  Simulating Social Phenomena  Springer-Verlag  1997  Review by Scott Moss (JASSS 1.2, 1998). 
Edmonds, Bruce, Hernandez, Cesareo and Troitzsch, Klaus G.  Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries  Information Science Reference  2007  Review by Scott E. Page (JASSS 11.2, 2008) 
Epstein, Joshua M.  Generative Social Science  Princeton  2006  Review by Rosaria Conte (JASSS 10.4, 2007) 
Epstein, Joshua M. and Axtell, Robert  Growing Artificial Societies: Social science from the bottom up  MIT  1996   
Garnsey, Elizabeth, Hall, Clare and McGlade, James  Complexity and Co-Evolution: Continuity and change in socio-economic systems  Edward Elgar  2006  Review by Mauro Lombardi (JASSS 10.1, 2007). 
Gaylord, Richard J. and D'Andria, Lou  Simulating Society: A Mathematica toolkit for modeling socioeconomic behavior  Springer Verlag  1998  Very informative specifically on modeling of cellular automata using Mathematica. Review by Rainer Hegselmann (JASSS 1.3, 1998). 
Gilbert, Nigel  Agent-Based Models  Sage  2007  Review by Gianluca Manzo (JASSS 11.2, 2008) 
Gilbert, Nigel and Troitzsch, Klaus G.  Simulation for the Social Scientist  Open University  1999  Review by Andrea Schertlet (JASSS 3.3, 2000). 
Harrison, Neil E.  Complexity in World Politics  SUNY Press  2006  Review by Orion A. Lewis (JASSS 10.4, 2007) 
Hodgson, Geoffrey M.  Evolution and Institutions: On evolutionary economics and the evolution of economics  Edward Elgar  1999   
Holland, John H.  Emergence: From chaos to order  Oxford  1998  Review by Tony Curzon Price (JASSS 1.4, 1998). 
Humphreys, Paul  Extending Ourselves: Computational science, empiricism, and scientific method  Oxford  2004  Discusses how computers have extended our abilities, and the implications for philosophy of science. 
Jennings, Nicholas R. and Wooldridge, Michael J. (eds)  Agent Technology: foundations, applications and markets  Springer Verlag  1998  Covers examples of commercial and industrial applications of agent-based models. Review by Jaime Simão Sichman and Jami Fred Hübner (JASSS 2.3, 1999). 
Jervis, Robert  System Effects: Complexity in political and social life  Princeton  1997  Usefully discursive review by Scott E. Page (JASSS 2.1, 1999). 
Marchi, Scott de  Computational and Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences  Cambridge  2005  Review by Flaminio Squazzoni (JASSS 10.2, 2005) 
Noble, Denis  The Music of Life  Oxford  2006  A spirited attack on simple-minded reductionism, with illuminating analogies to music, promoting the idea of "middle-out" explanation (as opposed to "top-down" or "bottom-up"). 
North, Michael and Macal, Charles  Managing Business Complexity: Discovering strategic solutions with agent-based modeling and simulation  Oxford  2007  Review by H. Van Dyke Parunak (JASSS 10.4, 2007) 
Overwalle, Frank van  Social Connectionism: A reader and handbook for simulations  Routledge  2007  Aims to demonstrate how human reasoning biases can be explained by the mechanism of connectionist learning. Review by Martin Neumann (JASSS 11.3, 2008). 
Rennard, Jean-Philippe (ed.)  Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economics and Management  Idea Group Inc.  2006  Review by Erol Taymaz (JASSS 11.1, 2008) 
Rowe, Glenn W.  Theoretical Models in Biology  Oxford  1994   
Siegfried, Tom  The Bit and the Pendulum: From quantum computing to M theory - the new physics of information  Wiley  2000  Explores the idea that reality ultimately consists of information. 
Tesfatsion, Leigh and Judd, Kenneth L. (eds)  Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume II: Agent-based Computational Economics  Elsevier  2006  Review by Herbert Gintis (JASSS 10.1, 2007) 
Wolfram, Stephen  A New Kind of Science  Wolfram Media Inc.  2002  An ambitious and controversial attempt to set algorithmic models at the heart of science. 



Books on Evolution and Game Theory


Author Title Publisher Year Description
Axelrod, Robert  The Evolution of Cooperation  Penguin  1990  Describes Axelrod's seminal investigations of the evolution of cooperation, based on computer models of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. 
Binmore, Ken  Natural Justice  Oxford  2005  Gives an evolutionary game-theoretic account of the origin of ethics. 
Dawkins, Richard  The Blind Watchmaker  Penguin  1988   
Dennett, Daniel C.  Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the meanings of life  Penguin  1996  A deep and lucid discussion of the philosophical significance of evolution by natural selection. 
Dugatkin, Lee Alan  Cooperation Among Animals  Oxford  1997   
Gibbons, Robert  A Primer in Game Theory  Harvester Wheatsheaf  1992   
Hamilton, W. D.  Narrow Roads of Gene Land  Oxford  1996   
Maynard Smith, John  Did Darwin Get It Right?  Penguin  1993   
Maynard Smith, John  Evolution and the Theory of Games  Cambridge  1982   
Poundstone, William  Prisoner's Dilemma  Oxford  1993   
Richerson, Peter J. and Boyd, Robert  Not by Genes Alone: How culture transformed human evolution  University of Chicago  2005  Review by Giangiacomo Bravo (JASSS 10.1, 2007) 
Ridley, Matt  The Origins of Virtue  Penguin  1997  Very engagingly discusses the evolution of altruism and morality, in the light of recent studies of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma etc. 
Slater, P. J. B. and Halliday, T. R.  Behaviour and Evolution  Cambridge  1994   
Weibull, Jörgen  Evolutionary Game Theory  MIT  1995  A well-known compendium of recent research. Review by Daniel Probst (JASSS 2.1, 1999). 



Books on Artificial Life


Author Title Publisher Year Description
Boden, Margaret A. (ed.)  The Philosophy of Artificial Life  Oxford  1996  A substantial collection of excellent papers on the Philosophy of Artificial Life, with a useful introduction. 
Kauffman, Stuart  At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity  Penguin  1996   
Langton, Christopher G. (ed.)  Artificial Life: An Overview  MIT  1995   
Levy, Steven  Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation  Penguin  1993   

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